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Cop acquitted, how bad will it get?

Cop acquitted, how bad will it get?

  • Only peaceful demonstrations

    Votes: 1 2.4%

  • There will be a few riots

    Votes: 1 2.4%

  • There will be a lot of riots

    Votes: 21 51.2%

  • Burn, baby, burn!

    Votes: 18 43.9%
  • Total voters
    41
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If police officer Derek Chauvin, the man who kneeled on Floyd George's neck is acquitted, how bad do you think it will get?
 
Considering historically the civil unrest following an acquittal usually eclipsed that of the incident, I went with the all-in max choice. Let's just hope an acquittal doesn't occur. And if it does, let's hope I'm wrong.
 
Chomsky said:
Considering historically the civil unrest following an acquittal usually eclipsed that of the incident, I went with the all-in max choice. Let's just hope an acquittal doesn't occur. And if it does, let's hope I'm wrong.
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It is good to note that prior to the video being released it had been declared a "good kill".

Just like in the case of the guys who chased Aubrey down and killed him when he refused to submit.

I wouldn't have either.

Just look at those guys.

You know they're the type who keep geeks in their basements so they can get their gay on in secret.
 
We're going to have to send police officer Derek Chauvin to Canada to get a fair trial.
 
This is the reason the original prosecutor only charged 3rd degree murder, and manslaughter,
he felt that he could prove the elements of those beyond a reasonable doubt.
1st degree murder, would be a much higher bar to reach.
If Chauvin were convicted of both, he could get 40 years, before the Feds try him on civil rights violations.
 
swing_voter said:
If police officer Derek Chauvin, the man who kneeled on Floyd George's neck is acquitted, how bad do you think it will get?
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This guy should probably be convicted but police rightly have a higher level of being held responsible. You can't give them the power to keep the peace and arrest criminals under highly intense and often life and death situations and then throw the book at them if they went too far during these intense situations of if something just flat out went wrong or if they just screwed up. Now, like I said, in this particular instance, this cop should probably be found guilty but I'm reading that even Floyd's very own family paid autopsy has already given some hope to the cop's defense. If he's not found guilty we can expect worse than what we've got now. That's not how it should be but that is the reality.
 
swing_voter said:
If police officer Derek Chauvin, the man who kneeled on Floyd George's neck is acquitted, how bad do you think it will get?
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Depends where you live. If you live in the inner city, it could get ugly. If you live in areas where people respect other Peoples' property, and the police and have a fair amount of firearms ownership, I doubt much.
 
swing_voter said:
If police officer Derek Chauvin, the man who kneeled on Floyd George's neck is acquitted, how bad do you think it will get?
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it will not be good.
 
swing_voter said:
We're going to have to send police officer Derek Chauvin to Canada to get a fair trial.
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Swing_voter:

Canada will not be far enough away, we saw all the news coverage and are tainted. Canadians are not former officer Chauvin's peers either and your law requires a jury of peers or a judge of the American legal system. American Samoa or the Marshall Islands perhaps?

Cheers and be well.
Evilroddy.
 
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swing_voter said:
If police officer Derek Chauvin, the man who kneeled on Floyd George's neck is acquitted, how bad do you think it will get?
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Remember the 1992 Los Angeles riots? Like that, only way worse. King wasn't killed, there was no pandemic, less political division, and the riots were pretty much confined to LA and didn't start until after the verdict. This time, riots already are underway nationwide, even worldwide. I suspect they will continue regardless the verdict.
 
swing_voter said:
If police officer Derek Chauvin, the man who kneeled on Floyd George's neck is acquitted, how bad do you think it will get?
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This is the Democratic Party's race baiting for this election season, so it will be a bad or not as the MSM and Democratic Party wants it to be. Whether the MSM and Democratic Party will again call for nationwide riots, looting and arson may depend whether it is after the election and who wins. If Biden wins and the officer is acquitted, nothing will happen. If Trump wins the MSM and Democratic Party will call for the country to be burned to the ground to blame it on Trump as they are trying to do now.
 
Moderate Right said:
This guy should probably be convicted but police rightly have a higher level of being held responsible. You can't give them the power to keep the peace and arrest criminals under highly intense and often life and death situations and then throw the book at them if they went too far during these intense situations of if something just flat out went wrong or if they just screwed up. Now, like I said, in this particular instance, this cop should probably be found guilty but I'm reading that even Floyd's very own family paid autopsy has already given some hope to the cop's defense. If he's not found guilty we can expect worse than what we've got now. That's not how it should be but that is the reality.
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Moderate Right:

What was intense about the arrest of Mr. Floyd prior to the applications of immobilisation to him, which led to his death? He cooperated with police while they arrested and handcuffed him, he baulked when they tried to stuff him into the back of a police vehicle but he was still restrained. He quietly and slowly died while three to four officers applied pressure to his neck and dorsal thorax calmly and with serene determination, and the police had time to consider the pleas of Mr. Floyd, the advice of another cop and the requests of bystanders to lighten up on Mr. Floyd for several minutes before his respiratory distress induced hypoxia and death. This was not an intense situation at all until the arresting officers made it so.

Cheers and be well.
Evilroddy.
 
Moderate Right said:
This guy should probably be convicted but police rightly have a higher level of being held responsible. You can't give them the power to keep the peace and arrest criminals under highly intense and often life and death situations and then throw the book at them if they went too far during these intense situations of if something just flat out went wrong or if they just screwed up. Now, like I said, in this particular instance, this cop should probably be found guilty but I'm reading that even Floyd's very own family paid autopsy has already given some hope to the cop's defense. If he's not found guilty we can expect worse than what we've got now. That's not how it should be but that is the reality.
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That's pretty anti-American and anti-freedom.

We the people need to keep our government officials including police in check and always throw the book at them when they blatantly screw up and go too far.

“Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty or give me death!”

— Patrick Henry
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“Who are the militia? Are they not ourselves? It is feared, then, that we shall turn our arms each man against his own bosom. Congress have no power to disarm the militia. Their swords, and every other terrible implement of the soldier, are the birthright of an American...[T]he unlimited power of the sword is not in the hands of either the federal or state governments, but, where I trust in God it will ever remain, in the hands of the people.”

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swing_voter said:
If police officer Derek Chauvin, the man who kneeled on Floyd George's neck is acquitted, how bad do you think it will get?
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Some of these rioters because the protestors gave them cover, wittingly or unwittingly, because the 'coast was clear' have made enough cash during this
episode to lay low for a while. Because of this I feel they won't do much damage until their next imagined grievance occurs. Probably the next event may
even be bigger when Trump gets re-elected I suggest those who fear rioters at that time brace yourselves. That would be about 6 months away &
those who engaged in damaging high end stores to rob when police are ordered to stand down will have another field day.
 
slick said:
Some of these rioters because the protestors gave them cover, wittingly or unwittingly, because the 'coast was clear' have made enough cash during this
episode to lay low for a while. Because of this I feel they won't do much damage until their next imagined grievance occurs. Probably the next event may
even be bigger when Trump gets re-elected I suggest those who fear rioters at that time brace yourselves. That would be about 6 months away &
those who engaged in damaging high end stores to rob when police are ordered to stand down will have another field day.
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That's an interesting take.


I heard that the family is pressing for "murder in the first degree" or premeditated murder. This is very hard to prove and the cop is likely to go free.
 
swing_voter said:
That's an interesting take.


I heard that the family is pressing for "murder in the first degree" or premeditated murder. This is very hard to prove and the cop is likely to go free.
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There is usually a scale of charges for the jury to choose from.
 
swing_voter said:
If police officer Derek Chauvin, the man who kneeled on Floyd George's neck is acquitted, how bad do you think it will get?
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He should get murder 1 but if he is aquitted thats how the cookie crumbles and I dont really care how the peanut gallery feels about it.

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joko104 said:
This is the Democratic Party's race baiting for this election season, so it will be a bad or not as the MSM and Democratic Party wants it to be. Whether the MSM and Democratic Party will again call for nationwide riots, looting and arson may depend whether it is after the election and who wins. If Biden wins and the officer is acquitted, nothing will happen. If Trump wins the MSM and Democratic Party will call for the country to be burned to the ground to blame it on Trump as they are trying to do now.
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They wont reach a verdict before the election takes place

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One set of rules for the police and lawmakers and one set for the rest of us.
I love my country but I'd be delusional if I said we weren't a police state oligarchy with some elements of Italian Fascism.
 
Well there are plenty of videos of LA after the Rodney King verdict. That was just LA. This is going on all over the country. Even here in Tallahassee Florida.

And then for sure there would be a federal civil rights prosecution
 
Abbazorkzog said:
One set of rules for the police and lawmakers and one set for the rest of us.
I love my country but I'd be delusional if I said we weren't a police state oligarchy with some elements of Italian Fascism.
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Hating law and order and loving anarchy is one of the core doctrines on the new Democratic Fascist Progressive Party.
 
americanwoman said:
That's pretty anti-American and anti-freedom.

We the people need to keep our government officials including police in check and always throw the book at them when they blatantly screw up and go too far.
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The best way to accomplish this to the Democratic Party is riots, looting and arson. If the reason is defined as because of hatred of police, any criminality of mob rule is promoted by many progressives.

It's election season again - so again the Democratic Party and their MSM outlets are promoting riots, looting and arson, claiming this is a retaliation for the race hatred that the Democratic Party created and perpetuates. Every election season the Democratic Party declares its pure hatred of the police and criminal justice system in favor of criminal anarchy by blacks figuring to get black votes out of this. About the only places they can get away with this is in Democratic run cities, meaning the criminal conduct will be allowed and promoted by the Democratic officials, Democratic appointed police chiefs and Democratic appointed prosecutors.
 
Abbazorkzog said:
One set of rules for the police and lawmakers and one set for the rest of us.
I love my country but I'd be delusional if I said we weren't a police state oligarchy with some elements of Italian Fascism.
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Correct. Police can not riot, steal anything they want and burn anything they want with no fear of prosecution.

The new Democratic Party is fascism straight out of Hitler's Mein Kampf. Exact same declared policy goals. Exact same tactics too.
 
Lol I triggered him so hard he quoted me twice without even realizing it.

:lamo
 
joko104 said:
Hating law and order and loving anarchy is one of the core doctrines on the new Democratic Fascist Progressive Party.
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joko104 said:
The best way to accomplish this to the Democratic Party is riots, looting and arson. If the reason is defined as because of hatred of police, any criminality of mob rule is promoted by many progressives.

It's election season again - so again the Democratic Party and their MSM outlets are promoting riots, looting and arson, claiming this is a retaliation for the race hatred that the Democratic Party created and perpetuates. Every election season the Democratic Party declares its pure hatred of the police and criminal justice system in favor of criminal anarchy by blacks figuring to get black votes out of this. About the only places they can get away with this is in Democratic run cities, meaning the criminal conduct will be allowed and promoted by the Democratic officials, Democratic appointed police chiefs and Democratic appointed prosecutors.
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joko104 said:
Correct. Police can not riot, steal anything they want and burn anything they want with no fear of prosecution.

The new Democratic Party is fascism straight out of Hitler's Mein Kampf. Exact same declared policy goals. Exact same tactics too.
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You know, I (and probably many others) wouldn't think you were so full of **** if you didn't mention the Democrat party in literally EVERY SINGLE POST YOU MAKE while not mentioning the Republicans ONCE.

Not once.

Not.

Once.
 
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